Bobby Lashley to leave The Hurt Syndicate and retire major AEW star? Exploring the possibility

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Bobby Lashley is a former WWE Champion. [Image via Getty]

Bobby Lashley has made a name for himself in professional wrestling as a dominant singles star. However, ever since he began his career in AEW, he has been featured as a tag team wrestler. This could end very soon at the expense of a superstar who has been a close associate of The All Mighty.

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Former WWE United States Champion MVP reunited with Shelton Benjamin and Bobby Lashley to form The Hurt Syndicate in AEW last year. The faction has since been a top attraction in the Jacksonville-based promotion. However, it has seemingly hindered Lashley's potential as a singles attraction.

After all, Lashley has achieved immense success as a solo competitor, winning several world championships in his career. Wanting to revisit those glory days, The All Mighty might soon start having tensions with The Hurt Syndicate.

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This could potentially lead to Shelton Benjamin and MJF siding with MVP and launching an attack on Lashley, ending the 48-year-old's association with the stable. Lashley, wanting revenge, might challenge MVP to a retirement match, raising the stakes higher than ever. After all, MVP recently revealed that he is set to retire in the next two years.

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The former WWE Champion defeating and retiring his longtime friend and stablemate could mark the start of his huge singles push in AEW and position him as a top attraction, much like he was in the global juggernaut. That said, the angle is speculative at this point.

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Bobby Lashley's stablemate, MVP, desires to have a retirement tour in AEW

After revealing his retirement timeline in a recent appearance on the Marking Out podcast, MVP also added that he wished to have a retirement tour in All Elite Wrestling.

“At this stage of the game for me, like, I don’t have to do it. I just still enjoy doing it. When I get to the point that I can’t do it effectively or if I’m taking baseball slide bumps, then it’s time to go. I plan on ending this run here pretty soon anyway. I want to have my last match. I want to have the retirement tour; let me go around, ‘Hey, this is the last time MVP will be wrestling in your city,’” he said. [H/T: Fightful]
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Should MVP get a much-deserved retirement leg in AEW, Bobby Lashley could be his final opponent and garner much attention at the expense of his stablemate's in-ring career coming to its conclusion.

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Edited by Yash Mittal
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